Edward Faulks

Patrick Kelly was born in Boston in 1890 into a Mormon household. At the age of 23 he was imprisoned for an attack on a woman that left her face disfigured. In prison Kelly studied voraciously and upon release in 1920 sailed for Europe and assumed the name Edward Faulks. He became a society figure in Paris, notorious for his dealings with the occult and alternative spiritualism. His first book The American Mystic was a diluted and contorted composite of the wisdom of Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt Whitman combined with ill-informed mysticism. The central tenet of that mysticism is the power to “channel coincidence”. The book also contained a chapter entitled Honeycomb – which describes the formation within bee-hives as the “very detail where we find our god.”

After the publication of The American Mystic Faulks became a minor celebrity in England and in France, and his rumoured predilection for violent sexual encounters added to his mystique.

In 1929 Faulks claimed to have found “a true proof and route to God in the palm of nature.” He was to reveal his findings in a book entitled Honeycomb. In late September of that year, whilst living in a cottage on the Gower Coast, Faulks disappeared. His manuscript for Honeycomb was never found. Neither was he.

Faulks is rumoured to be related to author Sebastian Faulks [http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth3]